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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Pullman Strike

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[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students read parallel accounts of the Pullman Strike of 1894 from two opposing Chicago newspapers. Young scholars read each newspaper closely to identify the key phrases that demonstrate each paper's position on the strike.

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document-based, historical claim, historical inquiry, labor strike, chicago labor union, dbq, sheg: document based history: reading like a historian: pullman strike, primary source, pullman strike, 1894
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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